Quote of the Day: Bobby Lashley Wants Brock Lesnar

my friend told me he never really got over in wrestling either. they brought him after brock and he never really took off the same way. he has the personality of a pet rock. Lesnar didn’t do it the “right way” of working his way up. But he didnt fight in indie shows and call out UFC champs either, Put up or Shut up stop riding the coat tails

Fightfinder is a great resource but try and make sure you see what context the result is in before blindly pointing out it was a cut that stopped it. ESPECIALLY IF THE RESULT SAYS CUT. Fedor vs TK – fluke. Bobby Lashley vs some dude – Asswhuppin

For instance, when people point out Fernandes got beaten by Urijah on a cut because they checked the fight on fightfinder… Its just plain dumb to do that and not check to see if Urijah was crushing his face into the cage with his elbow repeatedly. It makes you look foolish

So are you saying that Randy was not a quality opponent either?

Minowa is better at leglocks than Lesner

A+B=C

So these guys shouldn’t get to fight in a real sport because it’s annoying for you to have to explain it to stupid people?

but it’s wrong.

but I am not worried about having to explain something as ridiculous as what a guy did in his previous career to someone. It really has no baring at all. What about guys that waited tables or something before they got into MMA fulltime?

All that this argument says is that fans outside of Japan are deficient. I say that because, in Japan, fighters have crossed over between pro-wrestling and pro-FIGHTING for years, and no one has ever gotten “confused”. You could, in fact, make the argument that from the earliest days of MMA – public challenge matches between different styles of fighting – there has always been a performative aspect that naturally led to overlap with pre-scripted performances. If most people can’t figure out where MMA stops and the pro-wrestling starts – and accept that, to a certain extent, so long as men and women are fighting for our viewing pleasure the line will always be blurry – we have much bigger problems to worry about than the fate of MMA.

We can’t and shouldn’t hold legitimate athletes and fighters out of the sport because dummies can’t tell A from B. That’s called the lowest common denominator, and we shouldn’t go there.

Tons of MMA fans came over from pro wrestling, especially in Japan where Pride was modeled after the pro wrestling shows. What’s funny is that most hardcore pro wrestling fans probably didn’t need anyone to explain Brock Lesnar’s qualifications for MMA because they knew of his world class amateur background.

The fact that you wrote this post is awesome.

You’re the man, Warhand. Good on ya.

Well said.

It’s posts like this that make this site my homepage and not sherdog forums.

that’s awesome Warhand.
On mornings like this I’m really proud of the scruffy little blog I started almost two years ago now.

But you’re supposed to call someone a moron for disagreeing with you!!!

but that seems kind of ridiculous as he now weighs 260 or whatever. How is his wrestling career being judged? The entire thing was scripted & he made millions, so I would consider that a successful career venture myself. I do not blame anyone for taking that kind of money.